Tech at Night: Bitcoin to get taxed like gold. A mild satellite bill passes subcommittee. Jimmy Wales adds his POV to Wikipedia.

How you can tell when it’s time for the Congress just to sit down and do nothing. When Democrats and Republicans are making uncharacteristic arguments. Isn’t it strange that Rick Perry, who famously put out a book in praise of federalism, is against federalism on gambling? I’m just going to assume there’s some fluky thing at work here and ignore this aberration from him.

This renewal of STELA is really pathetically weak. There are so many avenues for improvement – retransmission consent reform, preventing FCC from banning innovation from CableCARD (a failed standard) – and Republicans really are going too far letting Democrats go on fishing expeditions to grow government. Anna Eshoo really is hammering for big government, and this is why bipartisan is bad.

The evidence mounts that Edward Snowden aided Russia at the expense of America and as it turns out, of Ukraine as well. Can Snowden sleep at night, knowing about all the Ukrainians in Crimea who are being beaten or risk having to flee their homes from the Russian occupation forces?